NM Dan Heisman selects for you highly instructive games, that will help you improve your game! In this new series, Dan analyzes famous and not-so-famous games that he thinks will give you a tool to get to the next level.

Today's show: In a model of pre-game computer preparation, Anand plays a major sharp line in the Sicilian Najdorf English Attack. At home, he finds a brilliant improvement over an Informant suggestion with 24..Nc7! But even that does not end the game, as several sharp (also likely prepared) moves follow leaving him with a completely won position. After a few more attempts to defend, Karjakin goes down to an Anand mating attack.

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